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                                            Lennart Poettering

mkosi should be made compatible with a host with SELinux enabled

I sympathize with the issue, but given that I am not an SELinux guru I am not sure I can fix this. I'd be happy to review and merge a...

mkosi should do nothing if executed in a directory without configuration

I think i agree that it probably doesn't make sense to build stuff without config. this was modelled after "make", which also works without Makefile. But admittedly it's a pretty...

Add support for pinning package versions

Also see #748

Optionally, right before completing set all mtimes to zero

> Is there a list of directories which should not be zeroed? A simple approach might be to just zero the mtime of everything outside of /proc and /sys, and...

Add support for A/B root partitions

BTW, my plan was to add a small tool to systemd called "systemd-repart" or so, which could do minor repartitioning during boot. Specifically, enlarge partitions and add in partitions, i.e....

Use chown + uidmapped mounts to avoid root owned files on the host

But the mkosi.builddir/mkosi.cache thing being root owned, is that so bad? I mean, unlike the output files these are only read/written by mkosi which after all runs privileged... We could...

Use chown + uidmapped mounts to avoid root owned files on the host

sure, send a patch... but if figure this should chown the dir before starting the operation to root, and then back to the calling user after its done

Support environment file(s)

makes sense I guess.

limited gpg path length may clash with mkosi.workspace path length

hmm, why does gpg need to bind a socket there? what's going on?

limited gpg path length may clash with mkosi.workspace path length

by what though? and why would it put a socket in the workspace dir?